How does From pull it off again and again?

just summon blue bro

Literally Miyazaki being a good director.
Look how quality went down when someone was put in charge with the second das.
Even when he's not the main director, he supervises. From is proof competent leadership is very important in game development.

by making the same garbage game over and over again

call me when they go back to their roots, fucking mecha games.

And?

No one uses Maya any more

Their mech games were shit and didnt sell
So I guess we'll never call you

Because people are retarded and all the schools are teaching Maya because they're also teaching Animation, which Maya is great at. Alot of people simply know Maya and that's where modern talent pool is coming from, however alot of the oldfag game artists and people are Max guys. Most of Fromsoft would be oldfags with some youngins sprinkled in.

Purely modeling and doing anything OTHER than animation/rigging in Maya is pure dog shit and even Blender is better than Maya at pretty much everything. Max is absolute king for actually making a game, especially combined with havok and other 3rd party stuff.

I work in a games studio where everyone is using Maya and watching how slow everyone does anything is agonizing. In the time it's taken our 100+ studio to make one upcoming release, Fromsoft have made 3 full fucking games.

Souls games basically invented their own genre. The early AC games were great but From milked it too long with 15 games. They had no clear vision until Miyazaki came into the picture

A lot of it boils down to not overextending themselves. They don't add meaningless complicated side-systems and mechanics, their games are focused on their core ideas and intended user experience.

Which is a bit worrying for Elden Ring, they haven't done anything as expansive in scope before, had to make a sprawling open world. Still, I'm cautiously optimistic.

Im way out of my field here but even if they are working on Elden Ring I refuse to believe it can be extremely hard/time consuming to make a DLC with like 2 bosses

Sekiro sold decent so I dont see why they wouldnt wanna do it, but I dont know their work structure, maybe they have everyone working on ER